{"id":232811,"date":"2026-03-08T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/%ce%b2-hydroxybutyrate-enhances-the-metabolic-fitness-of-car-t-cells-in-cancer"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:33:22","slug":"%ce%b2-hydroxybutyrate-enhances-the-metabolic-fitness-of-car-t-cells-in-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/%ce%b2-hydroxybutyrate-enhances-the-metabolic-fitness-of-car-t-cells-in-cancer","title":{"rendered":"\u03b2-hydroxybutyrate enhances the metabolic fitness of CAR T cells in cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ceb2-hydroxybutyrate-enhances-the-metabolic-fitness-of-car-t-cells-in-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now online! \u03b2-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), the ketone body associated with a ketogenic diet, metabolically reprograms and fuels CAR T cells to achieve proliferation, cytokine production, and superior tumor control. These findings suggest that BHB supplementation may be a practical way to boost adoptive cancer immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now online! \u03b2-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), the ketone body associated with a ketogenic diet, metabolically reprograms and fuels CAR T cells to achieve proliferation, cytokine production, and superior tumor control. These findings suggest that BHB supplementation may be a practical way to boost adoptive cancer immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}